03-JUL-2006
A look up Wenceslas Square
Photo taken standing about half-way up the square. The National Museum caps it all off, at the far end. For some insane reason the Communists built a motorway right in front of it, cutting it off from the square. What on earth were they smoking? I want some!
13-JUL-2006
Facade on Wenceslas Square
A rather beautifully painted facade right next door to the apartment hotel I stayed in this year.
14-JUL-2006
Facade on Wenceslas Square
Another view of the same building. It was impossible to get a square-on shot due to construction work, alas.
02-JUL-2006
Facade of Hotel Europa, Wenceslas Square
The Hotel Europa is rather a faded beauty, its heyday long past, but it presents a most imposing face to the world still. Hotel Meran next to it makes for an interesting contrast sizewise.
02-JUL-2006
Facade detail, Wenceslas Square
Built when they still cared about the look of the thing, it seems.
02-JUL-2006
Facade detail, Wenceslas Square
Small details everywhere on some of the buildings.
02-JUL-2006
Facades on Wenceslas Square
02-JUL-2006
Facade detail, Wenceslas Square
02-JUL-2006
Facade detail, Wenceslas Square
It translates as "The Golden Goose", I think. Half the buildings in Prague seem to be called The Golden Something, it seems.
02-JUL-2006
Facade detail, Wenceslas Square
14-JUL-2006
Blacksmith in action
This guy stood at the northern end of the square, hammering away at... something... in the warm summer day. A tolerance for heat would appear to be mandatory in the blacksmithing industry!
14-JUL-2006
Equestrian statue
Riding a dead horse, so to speak, hanging from the roof of the Lucerna arcade, linking two of the streets leading off Wenceslas Square.
